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Vivian McInerny
Vivian McInerny

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Mar 3

Haiku

Four haiku based on prompt about time

Poetry

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Haiku
Haiku
Poetry

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Jan 31

Overland 3: Seeing Angels

Memories of traveling overland from Italy to India at age eighteen Somebody saw an angel. It was slightly blurry, but still. We heard about it the next day during our break after the lunch rush. Lucy, John and I poured ourselves coffee then slid into one of the wood booths…

Travel

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Overland 3: Seeing Angels
Overland 3: Seeing Angels
Travel

4 min read


Published in Tell Your Story

·Jan 23

Overland 2: On the Road and Off My Rocker

The night before we left, I was too excited to sleep. I said goodbye to my parents in the driveway then Margaret’s parents drove us up to Winnipeg for a cheap direct flight. The four of us shared a hotel room near the airport. I barely slept so boarded the…

Travel

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Overland 2: On the Road and Off My Rocker
Overland 2: On the Road and Off My Rocker
Travel

5 min read


Published in Tell Your Story

·Jan 21

Overland: 1

The Journey Starts, Escape from suburbia I said goodbye to my parents in the driveway. The summer of 1974, I graduated from high school, turned eighteen and, with money earned at the mall, bought a round-trip ticket to what seemed like a shimmering fairytale across the Atlantic: Europe. I grew up in a comfortable, blue collar…

Travel

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Overland: 1
Overland: 1
Travel

4 min read


Jan 9

A Loafing Couch, A Jug of Cough Syrup & Thou

How feeling sick as a dog made me a brilliant writer This was my thirty-third day of hacking and coughing. Not to worry. The computer screen doubles as a sneeze guard. When one is laying prone sick on the couch unable to participate in the corporeal joys of life, too…

Humor

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A Loafing Couch, A Jug of Cough Syrup & Thou
A Loafing Couch, A Jug of Cough Syrup & Thou
Humor

4 min read


Dec 13, 2022

Giving Thanks and Food Poisoning

When even tried-and-true recipes result in disaster or deliciousness I consider myself an elevator cook. I have my ups and downs. A Thanksgiving dinner guest once declared my dressing the best he’d ever tasted. He wasn’t being polite. It was flipping amazing. Another dinner guest at another Thanksgiving dinner suggested…

Humor

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Giving Thanks and Food Poisoning
Giving Thanks and Food Poisoning
Humor

4 min read


Dec 9, 2022

Deciding to Accept My Indecision

Discovering strength in ambivalence — I walked barefoot along the water’s edge where the sand and the sea and the sky blurred to gray. Cracked crab shells and jelly fish littered the beach. I kept my focus on my feet but sensed a slick dark figure bobbing in the breakers; a body surfer in a…

Essay

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Deciding to Accept My Indecision
Deciding to Accept My Indecision
Essay

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Dec 7, 2022

Contemplating Death on a Sunny Day

Or why I am so good at pretending to be immortal I always thought that life would make sense one day. With time I was sure I’d come to see what it all meant, what I learned, and what words of wisdom I could impart to others to make easier…

Essay

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Contemplating Death on a Sunny Day
Contemplating Death on a Sunny Day
Essay

4 min read


Oct 21, 2022

Reluctant Moon

A poem in phases In the dim-lit murk of memory where thoughts stick like boots in the marsh mud, I sink into an image of you, under a full moon, our first. *** Seated cross-legged on the almost floor of the night temple, almost because weeds pushing through the cracked…

Poetry

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Reluctant Moon
Reluctant Moon
Poetry

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Published in The Writing Cooperative

·Oct 21, 2022

The World Owes Us Nothing

Stop boohooing and keep writing — Maybe we heard a voice in our heads, like a literary Kevin Costner character: Write it and they will read. So we wrote our best thing. Poured our heart into it. Revealed our deepest and most vulnerable thoughts on the page and then sat back and waited for all the…

Humor

3 min read

The World Owes Us Nothing
The World Owes Us Nothing
Humor

3 min read

Vivian McInerny

Vivian McInerny

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Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.

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